Cherry Point and Cowart’s Wharf

Settled by Englishmen about 1640, Cherry Point

was later a childhood home of Mary Ball, the

mother of George Washington. In August 1814

American militia repulsed a British force there.

From the early 1800s to the 1940s, steamboats

plied the waters of Chesapeake Bay and ...

The 27th Indiana Infantry

3rd Brigade, 1st Div., 12th Corps

Held this position from 7p.m.

May 2nd to 9 a.m. May 3rd, 1863.

Present for duty 300

Killed 36, Wounded 114

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Mustered in Aug. 1861, Mustered out Sept. 1864

Total enrollment 1,101. Killed 172.

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Brown S. History 27th Indiana Infantry

Marker is ...

2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Iron Brigade

(Front):2nd Reg. Wis. Vol. Inf.

1st Brigade

1st Division

1st Corps

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Position July 2 & 3 on

Culp's Hill

(Left Side):Effective strength

July 1st 1863

302

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Killed 26

Wounded 155

Missing 52

Aggregate 233

(Right Side):Mustered into

U.S. Service

June 18, 1861

(Back):Total strength of Reg. 1272

Killed in Action 168

Wounded in Action 654

Died of Wounds ...

Officers' Quarters, Drum Barracks, 1862-1868

"Drum Barracks, Civil War Period"

Panel 1:

Officers’ Quarters

1862 * Drum Barracks * 1868

Supply Depot, Department of

the Southwest, U.S. Army.

In memory of the historic past of this

building and the importance of its

association with early ...

Fairview

Formerly a Chancellor farmstead, on May 3, 1863, Fairview became a gory landscape. That morning all the energy and violence of the Battle of Chancellorsville focused here - on the fields and woods around a commonplace log house. Here, the ...

The Old Barn – First Adobe Building

First adobe building

in La Grange

Built prior to 1850

Used for post office and later

stables for horses that

brought freight in from Waterford.

Marker is on Yosemite Boulevard (State Highway 132), on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Rickwood Field

Built by local industrialist A. H. "Rick" Woodward, this park opened on August 18, 1910. It is the oldest surviving baseball park in America. Rickwood served as the home park for both the Birmingham Barons (until 1987) and the Birmingham ...

American Special Operations Forces

In sacred memory of

American Special Operations Forces.

"Courage and Sacrifice."

[Five organizational emblems/insignia follow:]

United States Special Operations Command,

[U.S. Army Special Forces] Airborne,

Joint Special Operations Command,

United States Naval Special Warfare Command,

Air Force Special Operations Command,

"... I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ...

Fairview

Just ahead of you stood a story-and-a-half log house known as Fairview. This was originally a Chancellor home, but during the Civil War James Moxley and his family occupied it. Moxley was overseer of Frances Chancellor's 20 slaves. Moxley likely ...

Ordeal of the Wounded

After the May 3, 1863, fighting at Chancellorsville, the Confederates gathered up 500 wounded Union soldiers and brought them here to Fairview. For more than a week the helpless men lay in the yard around the house, receiving little medical ...